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Month: February 2024

The Shining Ending, July 4 1921. The Shining, Isolationism and the American Dream

The ending of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has chilled and intrigued movie-goers for years. In the closing scene of the film the camera moves from Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance sitting upright, dead in the snow, to a gallery of pictures in the ballroom of the Overlook Hotel. On one of the pictures is Jack in…

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    Alan Bleasdale’s drama The Monocled Mutineer was broadcast on the BBC in August 1986.
    This website explores the social and political backdrop to the show.